Rare Deep-rooting Y Chromosome Lineages in Humans: Lessons for Phylogeography

Overview

Journal Genetics

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 2003 Sep 25

PMID 14504230

Citations 16

Authors

Michael E Weale

Tina Shah

Abigail L Jones

John Greenhalgh

James F Wilson

Pagbajabyn Nymadawa

David Zeitlin

Bruce A Connell

Neil Bradman

Mark G Thomas

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Abstract

There has been considerable debate on the geographic origin of the human Y chromosome Alu polymorphism (YAP). Here we report a new, very rare deep-rooting haplogroup within the YAP clade, together with data on other deep-rooting YAP clades. The new haplogroup, found so far in only five Nigerians, is the least-derived YAP haplogroup according to currently known binary markers. However, because the interior branching order of the Y chromosome genealogical tree remains unknown, it is impossible to impute the origin of the YAP clade with certainty. We discuss the problems presented by rare deep-rooting lineages for Y chromosome phylogeography.

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